5.  Ms Zoya Petrovna Mikhaylova was born in 1944. Ms Anna Vasilyevna Didorchuk was born in 1955. Ms Klavdiya Grigoryevna Khodakova and Ms Galina Vasilyevna Savchenko were born in 1951. Ms Tatyana Alekseyevna Bondarenko was born in 1950. Ms Yelena Mikhaylovna Vaskevich was born in 1961. Ms Anna Nikolayevna Shandurskaya and Ms Yelena Nikolayevna Khlusevich were born in 1962. Mr Aleksandr Petrovich Gaydachuk was born in 1963. Mr Vladimir Vasilyevich Ostapenko was born in 1970. Mr Nikolay Nikolayevich Litvinov was born in 1976. Mr Nikolay Nikolayevich Vaypan was born in 1949. Mr Nikolay Ivanovich Starodubets was born in 1947. Ms Yelena Anatolyevna Zavina was born in 1964. Mr Tofik Kadyr Ogly Ibragimov was born in 1954. Ms Lyusya Ivanovna Ibragimova was born in 1958. All applicants reside in the city of Kirovograd, Ukraine.
6.  In 2000-2001 the applicants instituted separate sets of proceedings in the Kirovskiy District Court of Kirovograd, seeking the recovery of salary arrears and other payments, from their former employer, the State-owned enterprise, Kirovogradskiy Lyvarnyi Zavod (“the KLZ”), or its subsidiary enterprises. Mr Ibragimov and Mrs Ibragimova filed also applications with the labour disputes commission of the KLZ to recover unpaid salary.
7.  By a judgment of 27 June 2001, Ms Zoya Mikhaylova was awarded 4,684.81 Ukrainian hryvnas (UAH) in salary arrears from the KLZ. On 9 October 2001 the Court of Appeal of the Kirovograd Region upheld this judgment. The judgment remains unenforced. On 11 April 2002 the Kirovskiy District Court of Kirovograd rejected the applicant’s complaint against the Bailiffs’ Service for the non-enforcement of the judgment in her favour.
8.  By a judgment of 11 July 2001, Ms Anna Didorchuk was awarded UAH 2,736 in salary arrears from the KLZ. The judgment remains unenforced.
9.  By a judgment of 4 April 2000, Ms Klavdiya Khodakova was awarded UAH 1,075.90 in salary arrears from the KLZ subsidiary enterprise “Lyvarne Vyrobnytstvo”. The judgment remains unenforced.
10.  By a judgment of 7 September 2001, Ms Tatyana Bondarenko was awarded UAH 1,586.82 in salary arrears from the KLZ. In February 2003 the debt was partly (UAH 326) set off against the payment for communal charges. The rest of the judgment remains unenforced.
11.  By a judgment of 7 September 2001, Ms Yelena Vaskevich was awarded UAH 1,242.07 in salary arrears and compensation for the payment delay from the KLZ. In February and April 2003 the debt was set off against the payment for communal charges. On 6 May 2003 the Bailiffs’ Service terminated the enforcement proceedings in view of the full enforcement of the judgment given in the applicant’s favour.
12.  By a judgment of 20 June 2001, Ms Anna Shandurskaya was awarded UAH 1,324.98 in salary arrears from the KLZ. On 3 March 2004 the judgment was enforced.
13.  By a judgment of 27 September 2001, Ms Yelena Khlusevich was awarded UAH 1,815.88 in salary arrears from the KLZ. The judgment remains unenforced.
14.  By a judgment of 20 June 2001, Ms Galina Savchenko was awarded UAH 224.50 in salary arrears from the KLZ. The debtor enterprise maintained that in February 2003 the debt was set off against the payment for communal charges. The applicant challenges this statement. In June 2003 the Bailiffs’ Service returned the writ of enforcement to the applicant because of the lack of funds of the debtor enterprise.
15.  By a judgment of 30 August 2001, Mr Aleksandr Gaydachuk was awarded UAH 809.74 in salary arrears from the KLZ. On 19 January 2004 the debt amount was transferred to the applicant by a postal order.
16.  By a judgment of 27 April 2001, Mr Vladimir Ostapenko was awarded UAH 100 and UAH 3,870.73 in salary arrears from the KLZ and from the KLZ subsidiary enterprise “Lyvarne vyrobnytstvo”, respectively. On 3 March 2004 the judgment was enforced.
17.  By a judgment of 12 June 2001, Mr Nikolay Litvinov was awarded UAH 554.98 and UAH 493.25 in salary arrears from the KLZ and from the KLZ subsidiary enterprise “Pidrozdil okhorony “Strilets”, respectively. On 19 January 2004 the debt amount was transferred to the applicant by a postal order.
18.  By a judgment of 18 April 2001, Mr Nikolay Vaypan was awarded UAH 144.85 and UAH 2,730.61 in salary arrears from the KLZ subsidiary enterprise “Promyslovets” and the KLZ subsidiary enterprise “Lyvarne vyrobnytstvo”, respectively. On 31 May 2001 the Court of Appeal of the Kirovograd Region upheld this judgment. In February 2003 the debt was partly set off (UAH 145) against the payment for communal charges. The rest of the judgment remains unenforced.
19.  By a judgment of 15 May 2001, Mr Nikolay Starodubets was awarded UAH 1,786 in salary arrears from the KLZ subsidiary enterprise “Lyvarne vyrobnytstvo”. The judgment remains unenforced.
20.  By a judgment of 15 May 2001, Ms Yelena Zavina was awarded UAH 793.68 in salary arrears from the KLZ subsidiary enterprise “Lyvarne vyrobnytstvo”. On 19 January 2004 the debt amount was transferred to the applicant by a postal order.
21.  By a decision of 10 February 1998 the labour disputes commission awarded Mr Tofik Kadyr Ogly Ibragimov UAH 667.37 in salary arrears from the KLZ subsidiary enterprise “Lyvarne vyrobnytstvo”. By a judgment of 31 May 2001 he was awarded UAH 1,443 in salary arrears from the same enterprise. The decision and the judgment remain unenforced.
22.  By a decision of 10 February 1998 the labour disputes commission awarded Ms Lyusya Ibragimova UAH 1,044 in salary arrears from the KLZ. By a judgment of 3 July 2001 she was awarded UAH 2,786.41 in salary arrears from the same enterprise. The decision and the judgment remain unenforced.
23.  In December 2002 the applicants instituted proceedings in the Kirovskiy District Court against the State Property Fund claiming compensation for material and moral damage inflicted by the non-enforcement of the judgments in their favour. On 29 May 2003 the court dismissed the applicants’ claims. On 23 October 2003 the Court of Appeal of the Kirovograd Region upheld this judgment. On 31 August 2005 the Supreme Court of Ukraine rejected the applicants’ cassation appeal.
24.  On 16 and 19 January 2004 Ms Mikhaylova, Ms Didorchuk, Ms Khodakova, Ms Bondarenko, Ms Khlusevich, Mr Vaypan, Mr Starodubets, Mr and Mrs Ibragimovy refused to receive the awarded amounts until the end of the examination of their case in the Supreme Court of Ukraine. The above amounts were transferred to the deposit account of the Bailiffs’ Service.